Dubliany

Dubliany is a small city in Lviv Raion of Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine, about 7 km from Lviv and effectively a northern suburb of it. It belongs to the Lviv urban hromada and had a recorded population of 9,748 in a 2022 estimate. The name is thought to come from the Ukrainian word for oak, dub, after oak groves that once stood nearby, and an oak appears on the city's coat of arms. The place was first mentioned in 1440, received a railway station on the Lviv to Kivertsi line in 1910, became an urban-type settlement in 1967 and was granted city status in 1978. Its main landmark is the agrarian university founded in 1856 by the Galician Economic Society, with an arboretum laid out on its grounds in 1892. The town is also known for making traditional Christmas stars.